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scrupleless

adj

Etymology

From scruple + -less.

  1. derived from *ksew-✻
  2. derived from σκύρος
  3. derived from scrūpulus
  4. derived from scrupule
  5. suffixed as scrupleless — “scruple + less”

Definitions

  1. Without scruples

    Without scruples; uninhibited by conscience or moral concerns.

    • Your Grace's swordsmen have had ill luck of late; and it is hard, since you always choose the best hands, and such scrupleless knaves too.
    • Almost he longed to be a scrupleless Oriental and carry her off across his saddle bow.
    • We feel one of these untrained civilians will come face to face with a scrupleless smuggler.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA